{"id":31812,"date":"2020-05-20T21:45:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T01:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=31812"},"modified":"2020-05-20T21:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T01:45:56","slug":"washington-nationals-to-hold-virtual-ring-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2020\/05\/20\/washington-nationals-to-hold-virtual-ring-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals to Hold Virtual Ring Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>2019 World Series Champions<\/h1>\n<p>On Sunday May, 24th, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/washington-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Nationals<\/a> will hold a virtual ring ceremony. The ceremony will commemorate the team&#8217;s World Series championship from last season. The news, which was officially announced Tuesday, was first released on the team&#8217;s Twitter page.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">*ring* *ring* *ring*<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re calling to tell you we\u2019re unveiling our World Series championship rings Sunday, May 24.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/budweiserusa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@budweiserusa<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NATITUDE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NATITUDE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/51yKqcrCVN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/51yKqcrCVN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Nationals (@Nationals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nationals\/status\/1262881235011096576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2020\/05\/19\/nationals-world-series-virtual-ring-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>, the ceremony will start at 7:00 PM on Sunday. Furthermore, Nationals fans and anyone else interested, can watch the ceremony in a number of different formats. It will be broadcast on MASN and MLB Network. In addition, anyone interested can view the ceremony live on the Nationals website, Facebook, or via YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Given the current Coronavirus pandemic across the country, the Nationals have been unable to hold a ring ceremony for fans to celebrate with, in-person. Originally, the team planned on doing the ceremony on April 2nd which would have been their home opener against the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/new-york-mets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> New York Mets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>2019 Nationals Season<\/h2>\n<p>Last year at this exact time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/teams\/WSN\/2019.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Nationals<\/a> sat in fourth place in the NL East. At that time, the team was nine games back of first place. Additionally, the team&#8217;s skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/martida01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dave Martinez<\/strong><\/a> and general manager Mike Rizzo were in danger of losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>However, once the calendar flipped to June, the team took off. As a unit, they posted a record of 69-36. In the second half of the season, the team had a 46-27 record, a .630 winning percentage. Quite the turn around and tale of two seasons for a team.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, once the postseason rolled around Washington turned into the hottest team in MLB. After narrowly winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/WAS\/WAS201910010.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wild Card Game<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/milwaukee-brewers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>, the Nationals finished the remainder of the postseason with an 11-5 record.<\/p>\n<h2>Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n<p>In the end, it&#8217;s a shame that the Washington Nationals won&#8217;t get to celebrate the ceremony in-person at Nationals Park with their fanbase. Given the current circumstances facing the country, that is not possible right now.<\/p>\n<p>However, one thing is for certain and that&#8217;s the fact that no one will forget the story about the 2019 Washington Nationals. It&#8217;s one filled that started with disappointment and sadness, but finished with excitement and euphoria. Oh, and no one can forget about the Baby Shark dance, either!<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: <a id=\"nkxZyM2eSIBFJRFW86KGjg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1185148176\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'nkxZyM2eSIBFJRFW86KGjg',sig:'e9DCPSxG8x38I4BGSuMr_A8_W-NO2dWpB63tb-E4EFA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1185148176',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 World Series Champions On Sunday May, 24th, the Washington Nationals will hold a virtual ring ceremony. The ceremony will commemorate the team&#8217;s World Series championship from last season. The news, which was officially announced Tuesday, was first released on the team&#8217;s Twitter page. *ring* *ring* *ring* We\u2019re calling to tell you we\u2019re unveiling our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3320,"featured_media":31831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,35],"tags":[2133,941,79,69,1643,270,2462,38],"class_list":["post-31812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nationals","category-featured","category-news","tag-juan-soto","tag-latest-mlb-news","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-victor-robles","tag-washington-nationals"],"modified_by":"DJ Kleinbard","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}